(WaltBJ) wrote in message . com...
The only fighter I ever flew with surface anti-ice was the F86D/L. The
only time I ever heard of anybody in the outfit using it he got
serious damage to electrical circuitry inside the wing from a break in
the ducting.
FWIW if the indicated airspeed is around 300 knots the ram temp rise
is high enough to prevent icing. Most jets I know of do have engine
anti-ice and heated windscreens.
Walt BJ

What were the details of that B-1 loss some years ago due to icing?
Sometimes ya gotta slow down.
Also, these have been numerous UAV losses to icing and several helos
as well. That video shot of bin Laden a couple of years ago showed his
kids having a picnic around a destroyed MH-53 rotor head that ended up
where it was due to icing
Also, I would think this 'bus was tooling along at m.78 or so when he
found this ice today. This is pretty high to find ice this time of the
where he was...
UA /OV DPR/TM 1530/FL310/TP A306/SK OVC-TOP310/IC LGT-MOD BLO 310/NEG
ABV 310
Granted, I don't know what the indicated was since I'm not near a
flight planning system, but big iron is not immune to airframe icing
in cruise-even with ram rise factored in. Last week I saw a Airep out
on A300 in the Atlantic for moderate "almost severe" at FL350 in one
of the frontal systems.